Is there a way to wait for network to idle for X seconds?

[mranosa]

I am playing around with puppeteer and am trying to find a way for me to capture a users experience for a youtube video. I am able to make things work already, but if an ad video shows up before the video itself, my whole code gets broken.

My theory is that if I can increase the wait for network idle for X more seconds my code would work. Any workaround for this is also highly appreciated.

Thanks a lot! 😄

[vsemozhetbyt]

Maybe something like this?

const idleSpan = 60000;
let lastRequest = Date.now();

await page.setRequestInterception(true);
page.on('request', registerRequest);

while (Date.now() - lastRequest < idleSpan) await page.waitFor(1000);

page.removeListener('request', registerRequest);
await page.setRequestInterception(false);

function registerRequest(request) {
  request.continue();
  lastRequest = Date.now();
}

[markedmiston]

#3083 is working on exposing networkidle0 and networkidle2 but you can emulate it with the code from #1353 (comment). In your case you can adjust the timeout by replacing X in waitForNetworkIdle(page, X, 0)

[mranosa]

awesome! thanks a lot!